Healthy Zucchini Squares

Healthy Zucchini Squares

Ingredients 

• 1/2 cup almond butter
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup carob powder
• 3/4 cups of pulsed oats or oat flour
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1 1/2 cups shredded zucchini
• 1 tsp baking soda

Instructions

• In a large bowl cream almond butter, applesauce, honey and vanilla.
• Add in zucchini, carob powder, ground oats or oat flour, baking soda and sea salt.
• Bake for 20 mins at 350 degrees.

Enjoy!

Benefits of Carob Powder: 

• Good source of selenium
• A healthy alternative to chocolate as it carries low calories, caffeine free and dairy free.
• Can help to reduce cholesterol as the many polyphenols contained it will bind to cholesterol in the stomach and help pass it through the system.
• Good source of calcium